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Google+ is the shiny new toy over the past week or so.  It is very Spartan compared to Facebook, which is its strength.  It is also very flexible in how you can use it… which I fear may be its downfall (those who remember Wave will be familiar with this).  Circles are cool ( Read more... )

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Apple pretty much assumes that everyone who is using their iOS beta has a Mac - which is a reasonable assumption, because the beta is really more for developers to make their application work with iOS 5 than for nerds like me who just want to use the features before they’re ( Read more... )

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Important Note: This is for iOS 5 Beta 1. I will provide an article for iOS 5 Beta 2 soon, though currently I am not sure if the workaround for non-developers listed below works for Beta 2.

There aren’t many good tutorials on this out there, so I’m making one. I actually made ( Read more... )

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Yeah, I jumped on the bandwagon. I upgraded from my iPad to an iPad 2. Who can resist the geek-chic siren’s call of new Apple products?

Seriously though, the iPad took the market by storm, and the iPad 2 is superior (in my opinion) to the alternatives - both those currently ( Read more... )

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The folks at White Wolf are going to be releasing a 20th anniversary edition of Vampire: the Masquerade Revised at The Grand Masquerade this year.  It will be a self-contained tome on the order of 400 pages, including a ton of stuff. But what’s interesting to me is what is ( Read more... )

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First off, what happened in Japan is horrible. I do not at all mean to downplay any of the tragedy that occurred there. Also, I do not claim to be an expert on nuclear technology. However, I do know a fair amount, and more than enough to be able to distill what others (such ( Read more... )

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A friend just posted a link to this interview with Suzanne Venker, co-author (along with Phyllis Schlafly) of The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know-and Men Can’t Say. Feminists will probably be familiar with Schlafly already, and this interview with Venker is ( Read more... )

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I have a Nostromo n52 gaming pad for use with World of Warcraft, and I both love it and hate it. Here’s why:


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Not a new thing, I know. This has been an off-and-on hot topic (pun intended) for a while now. There seem to be two schools of thought:

School 1: Carbon dioxide emissions have been causing global warming, so we need to cut CO2 emissions.
School 2: Global warming is a natural ( Read more... )

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